Woman commits suicide after ‘stabbing husband’ in city

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house in the city’s JAtrabari area on Friday allegedly after stabbing her husband following a family feud.The deceased was identified as Josna, 32, wife of Abu Sayeed Shawapan; she lived with their two children in a rented house in Golapbag area.Quoting the family, Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari police station said that the couple used to lock into family feuds over the husband’s extra marital affairs.As usual, they again locked into an altercation on Thursday night. Later in the morning, Josna made her two kids unconscious feeding food laced with sleeping pills and stabbed her husband on throat and shoulder with sharp weapon, leaving him severely injured.Later, the wife committed suicide by hanging herself with her saree in the room, said the OC.Meanwhile, relatives of the victim broke open the door and found Josna’s body hanging from a ceiling fan.On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital morgue for an autopsy while the husband and two children were admitted there, the OC added.